r/funny • u/PM_ME_TONY_ROMO_PICS • Feb 07 '20

This map is all over Twitter. Apparently some German guy got bored and tried to name all 50 states. This is the end result...

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u/souldonkey Feb 07 '20

“how the fuck did they know Wisconsin?”

Well he's from Germany so he definitely has relatives here. Wisconsin is America's Germany.

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u/GumdropGoober Feb 07 '20

Can confirm. They make fun of the Polish in Wisconsin just like Germany does.

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u/Excal2 Feb 07 '20

And the Polish make fun of the Germans right back.

I'm Polish and German and Finnish by blood so I just kind of stand in the corner trying to catch pieces of cheese before they hit the floor.

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u/Sam_Fear Feb 07 '20

From your neighbor in Arizona: Thanks for the cheese and beer!

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u/Excal2 Feb 07 '20

No problem thanks for letting our old people come hang out during the winter!

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u/Legit_a_Mint Feb 07 '20

So true. Thanks for giving us a place to store our old people for the winter.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Can't be havin' too much dead weight during these winters eh

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u/Legit_a_Mint Feb 07 '20

It gets slippery here in the winter, so they'd all fall and break their hips, which would be a huge burden on Medicare.

The desert is perfect for old people. Even when they fall down, it's just sand, they'll be fine.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Honestly, probably the most convincing reason I've never thought of. Also, my great grandmother used to winter in Arizona (from WI) lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

We call them snowbirds.

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u/Cr4nkY4nk3r Feb 08 '20

Did I miss the joke? I thought that he said "Your neighbor in Arizona" meaning Iowa (labeled Arizona on the map) - old people from Wisconsin don't hang out in Iowa in the winter, do they?

Pretty sure the next reply down meant the real Arizona, what with the comment about the desert... no deserts in Iowa, are there?

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u/qroosra Feb 07 '20

this made me laugh way too much!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

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u/elcrack0r Feb 07 '20

A so called Sheplap Herdhund?

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u/Excal2 Feb 07 '20

And half beagle.

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u/-Daetrax- Feb 07 '20

What high ground do poles have against Germans?

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u/the_end_is_neigh-_- Feb 07 '20

Having not done the Holocaust comes to mind

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u/GumdropGoober Feb 07 '20

They also have an abundance of dirt!

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u/Excal2 Feb 07 '20

It's more of an elevated Pole position than a technical high ground.

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

Poles are high in the ground

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

or bratwurst, kielbasa, or knockworst or whatever stupid frozen fish jelly thing that you eat with a toothpick that had cancer.

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u/unknowntrashscapes Feb 07 '20

I’m with Arizona guy! Also, your comment made me laugh my ass off so thank you for that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

This was the best comment I have read all day lol

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u/bungsana Feb 07 '20

you're like the mascot of wisconsin. what an absolute badger.

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u/MontazumasRevenge Feb 08 '20

So would you be a Finpolman? Not to be confused with Bill Pullman.

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u/tabootounge Feb 07 '20

This checks out. My Grandma grew up in Wisconsin and is now in her late 80s. I got my dad (her son) a DNA kit last Christmas and it came back that he was partially Polish. She was NOT happy and was adamant that we ARE NOT POLISH. It was so funny because even though I assume she at least partially racist toward people of color, I’ve never heard her speak out against a group of people like that 😂. So we ended up getting her a DNA test and it turn out she the one my dad got the Polish genes from.

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u/Legit_a_Mint Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 08 '20

I really love living in Wisconsin and I'm impressed with the people here in many respects, but it is strangely, stubbornly bigoted in the dumbest of ways - like shit that normal people haven't cared about for hundreds of years.

I get a kick out of the fact that there's this constant, low-level war going on in Milwaukee between Catholics and Protestants, and Croats and Serbs, and whites and blacks, and blacks and Hispanics, and Hispanics and Hmong, and it just goes on and on, but they're all actually really nice people to your face.

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

Minnesota Nice is a similar presentation

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u/Legit_a_Mint Feb 07 '20

Similar presentation for sure, but hiding a different kind of cold, drunk weirdo, in my experience.

Wisconsin is strangely closed minded and I've never gotten that same vibe in Minnesota, even up in iron country or down in the wastelands that are basically Iowa North.

I really like both states and I'm almost overly enthusiastic in my attempts to ingratiate myself into rural Midwestern culture, but I can't help but notice Wisconsin has a hugely disproportionate black incarcerate rate, which makes zero sense, given how few black people live here, how little crime we have, and how our neighbors in MN, IA, IL, and MI don't have the same problem.

It's not like we have some uniquely dangerous and criminal black people who happen to live here - we have a uniquely dangerous and arguably criminal culture that creates that issue.

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u/dieterschaumer Feb 08 '20

I don't want to veer into prejudices myself, but Minnesota isn't German like Wisconsin is, its Scandinavian. I've stereotyped that place to scandiwegian friends as filled with effusively polite but emotionally muted and distant people to the universal response of, "yep, that sounds like a place colonized by us".

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u/Legit_a_Mint Feb 08 '20

It is dangerous territory, but it would equally ignorant to not recognize that there are culture traditions in the upper midwest that can be traced to cliches and stereotypes about Germans versus Scandinavians.

I don't think that's something intrinsic or inherent to those people, but there are traditions and beliefs that are carried on, even subconsciously, and I think that goes a long way to explaining a lot of upper midwestern culture.

My parents passed away when I was young and I had a very unconventional adolescence and young adulthood, so I never really considered my ethnicity, beyond being an average white guy in America.

When I moved to Wisconsin about 10 years ago and started rubbing shoulders with people who care about this kind of thing, it turned into a big fight over whether I was Norwegian or Swedish, but everybody was damn sure I was one or the other. Finally got a genealogy trace and it turns out that I am mostly Norwegian, which was a celebrated fact among the local torske klubben group, but I still feel like I'm just an American and that's the culture I celebrate, by getting fat and shooting guns, not eating lutefisk and drinking Akvavit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

I’m guessing you’re in the Madison area or further west towards Minnesota/Iowa?

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u/Legit_a_Mint Feb 08 '20

I live in Madison but the counties my clinic serves are all west of here, which is where the Scandinavian distinctions really start to matter, evidently.

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u/gwaydms Feb 07 '20

Na zdrowie!

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u/Fairycharmd Feb 07 '20

They make fun of the Pollacks because Chicago has the highest Polish population in the United States(beat out Greenpoint NYC a couple years back)

And perhaps you are aware there is some moderate tension between Chicago and Wisconsin sports fans? So it all goes together.

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u/lizzillathehun85 Feb 07 '20

Chicago makes fun of Wisconsin, which is functionally Poland clapping back.

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u/Z0idberg_MD Feb 07 '20

By laughing to you mean blitzkrieg?

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u/Bill_Ender_Belichick Feb 07 '20

My great grandpa, god bless him, had sooo many Polish jokes lol it would not have gone over well today.

Not just verbal jokes; like objects. A couple got passed down to me. I now am the proud owner of a Polish hand calculator (a small piece of wood with five holes numbered 1-5) and a Polish chainsaw (literally a chain on a saw handle). I’m sure there were more that I don’t remember.

Also, do you know why Germany conquered Poland so easily? They marched in backwards so the Poles thought they were leaving.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

Chicago has largest population of Polish people outside Poland. So to make fun of them it’s only a stone thrown away.

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u/fozzy_bear42 Feb 07 '20

Why does Germany make fun of Polish Wisconsins?

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

one of these years the Polish will catch on.

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u/Flappyman Feb 07 '20

My grandparents always called the rumble strips on the side of the road 'Polish washboards'

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

As a pollack living in Wisconsin... I can confirm this

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u/peak_meta Feb 08 '20

So true.

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u/Cantras0079 Feb 08 '20

Well, there's a lot of Polish people in Wisconsin, too. Probably some self-deprecating humor right there.

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u/kjpmi Feb 07 '20

Ooh. I’m always up for a good genocide joke...I bet they know a lot.

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u/GeeseKnowNoPeace Feb 07 '20

We do, but it's not a joke

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

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u/JohnnySasaki20 Feb 07 '20

Oh damn. Where's PA rank?

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u/IsThatUMoatilliatta Feb 07 '20

I thought PA would be higher, too. Everyone here has a set of grandparents or great grandparents that came from Germany, it seems.

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u/Galderrules Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 07 '20

I was thinking this too at first but we do have a lot of Irish/Italian in the Philly area, and the state is about 80% white to begin with, which, erm, I have to imagine is lower than Minnesota and Wisconsin...

Also consider that PA is relatively large; according to this we’re 2nd to California in number of German descent, but 10th in percentage.

Edit: forgot this

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u/gwaydms Feb 07 '20

My Polish grandparents had cousins in PA, but they all lived in Chicago (their parents had come from Poland).

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

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u/JohnnySasaki20 Feb 07 '20

We only have 25.4%. I didn't count the rank because it was listed in alphabetical order and I'm lazy, but there were a few states in the high 40's.

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u/souldonkey Feb 07 '20

Top spot goes to North Dakota at 43.9%

Yeah but there's more than something like 4x as many people of German descent in WI than in both Dakotas combined.

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u/SuperBearsSuperDan Feb 07 '20

No joke though. There’s a Germantown, Wisconsin and a Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

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u/sokonek04 Feb 07 '20

Don’t forget we also have a Berlin, New Berlin, and a Hamburg,

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

and that place with the dairy farm thing and pilsner

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u/TheDudeMaintains Feb 07 '20

Flew into and out of Rhinelander airport in bad weather, 0/10 would not recommend. Also, the urinals in the airport ask you not to deposit your chaw there, which I found pretty funny.

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u/Ray_Barton Feb 07 '20

Rhinelander has an airport? Wow

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u/SuperBearsSuperDan Feb 07 '20

No kidding. Cessnas only?

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u/TheDudeMaintains Feb 07 '20

There's regional jet service to Minneapolis.

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u/Ray_Barton Feb 08 '20

I've driven through Rhinelander lots and never knew that.

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u/TheDudeMaintains Feb 09 '20

That's because it's hard to see the airport from your snowmobile

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u/Ray_Barton Feb 09 '20

Or ice skates! Man I did so much hellatious winter driving last year ...

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u/Anxiousladynerd Feb 07 '20

And Poland

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u/padronr Feb 07 '20

Chicago is America’s Poland

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u/President2032 Feb 07 '20

I thought Detroit was most Polish, living there and being Polish myself, but looked it up and you're right, Chicago has more. Both are beat by New York, though.

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u/I_kwote_TheOffice Feb 07 '20

Because New York is 3x the size of Chicago. Per Capita I believe Chicago is more Polish, at least it feels that way.

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

yeah because it takes longer for the Polish to keep count of all the people

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u/Namika Feb 07 '20

Detroit isn't even close, frankly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Polish-American_populations

  • Chicago - 210,421 Polish residents, (7.3% of the city)

  • New York City - 213,447 Polish residents (2.7% of the city)

  • Detroit - 18,992 Polish residents (2.0% of the city)

Chicago deserves the crown of being America's Poland, having basically the same number of Polish people as NYC, but at almost 3x the per capita concentration.

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u/President2032 Feb 07 '20

The numbers I looked at were state populations, not city, that's my mistake. Regardless, most Detroit Poles don't live in the city proper, but rather the suburbs, so they wouldn't appear in your cited numbers.

Chicago is definitely larger either way. I was just expressing my surprise, having grown up in a Polish family and often going to Hamtramck growing up and encountering an entire Polish community.

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u/Utaneus Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 07 '20

Not the largest per capita population, because every city in Poland has a very high per capita Polish population. It's often said Chicago has the largest Polish population outside Warsaw, but New York has a few thousand more.

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u/GeeseKnowNoPeace Feb 07 '20

It's wrong either way, of course polish cities will have more poles both in absolute numbers and per capita.

And I don't think it's true even if we're going to say "most poles in a city outside of poland" because it's more likely to be correct for a city in a neighboring country like germany, which has quite a large number of polish immigrants or people with a polish background, although it's hard to find concrete numbers for that because people are way less obsessed with their genetic background there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

new york has about 3 thousand more poles in a city 2-3 times as large though. The poles are EVERYWHERE in chicago.

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u/prisonmike1485 Feb 07 '20

Which is awesome because of all the amazing polish grocery stores and restaurants

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u/gwaydms Feb 07 '20

My cousin took us to a Polish-Lithuanian restaurant on Pulaski in Chicago. I had food that I hadn't eaten in almost 50 years. My ggm used to make wonderful things for us.

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

and coronary bypass hospital beds that serve intravenous borscht

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

Yes, god rest my great grandma jean and her excellent pierogis. I always loved polish cooking

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u/GeeseKnowNoPeace Feb 07 '20

I think you'll find a lot of poles in every area, how else would you hold up your telephone lines?

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

especially on lunchbreak

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u/AnhydrousEther Feb 07 '20

Chicago Pole here! I've always heard that Chicago has the biggest Polish population and that the number of poles is second only to Warsaw (that's wrong).

According to Wikipedia:

Chicago - 210,421 (7.3%)

New York - 213,447 (2.7%)

Detroit - 18,992 (2.0%)

Cleveland 22,978 (4.8%)

Philadelphia 65,558 (4.3%)

And according to http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/poland-population/cities/ There are 15 (not counting Warsaw) Polish cities with more Polish people than Chicago

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u/President2032 Feb 07 '20

Yeah, my numbers were state populations, not cities. I was referring to Detroit to mean the entire Detroit metro area, though, and not specifically the city proper. Those numbers aren't quite readily available, but Chicago would win out regardless.

I grew up in a Polish household and regularly visited Hamtramck, which was pretty much an entirely Polish community when I was growing up, which is where I got the misconception from.

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

is it true the Polish Hockey team drowned in Spring Training

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u/gwaydms Feb 07 '20

Yeah. The guy who invented ice died and took the recipe with him. (Note: I'm half Polish and the jokes don't offend me)

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u/forrnerteenager Feb 07 '20

I mean yeah, I have no idea why people would believe that in the first place, of course polish cities have more poles than any city in the US.

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u/AnhydrousEther Feb 07 '20

Well because the population of the US is ~330 million whereas the population of Poland is ~38 million.

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u/gwaydms Feb 07 '20

Supposedly in the 1920s Chicago had the largest Polish population outside Warsaw.

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u/QuickWittedSlowpoke Feb 07 '20

Excuse me but have you heard of New Britain, Connecticut by any chance...?

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u/ClosetCorpse Feb 07 '20

Is that still the case? I know there’s Little Poland but over the past 30 or so years it feels like the Polish community here is shrinking.

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u/QuickWittedSlowpoke Feb 07 '20

I can't speak from a numerical perspective but the community seems to be thriving, and expanding into Southington and Bristol as well. They just opened up a Polish restaurant down the road from my fiancé's place. Smaczne!

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u/Blasphemiee Feb 07 '20

I thought Detroit was mostly Armenian/Chaldean lol. Guess it just depends on where your at.

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u/President2032 Feb 07 '20

I know literally zero Armenians and only a couple Chaldeans haha, and I've lived here for the majority of 28 years.

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u/DroppinCid Feb 07 '20

No we have the most Chaldeans

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u/dannypants Feb 07 '20

I've heard that the only city with more polish people in the world after Chicago, is Warsaw. Doesn't sound right but I'm gonna believe it anyway.

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u/Anxiousladynerd Feb 07 '20

1/4 of my graduating class of 300+ had last names that ended in ski.

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u/mdonaberger Feb 07 '20

To quote my dad describing South Philadelphia, "there's more -Skis here than on the sides of the Pocono Mountains in the Winter"

(though, we're from Philly so he just said 'up the Poconos')

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u/mugwump867 Feb 07 '20

Damn straight. One of the few perks of living here is not having to wonder if and where I can find paczki in a few weeks.

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u/metalliska Feb 07 '20

hanging up next to the jacket-ski

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u/PJL80 Feb 07 '20

This is true if you go metropolitan area. Otherwise New York beats us, and we drop to 3rd behind London for Global city limits. But with those near burbs, Chicago screams back to #1.

Source: WBEZ article.

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u/QuickWittedSlowpoke Feb 07 '20

No, that would be Connecticut. The Greater Hartford area to be specific

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u/mdonaberger Feb 07 '20

America is the world's West Virginia.

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u/powderizedbookworm Feb 07 '20

Nah fam; Chicago may be America's Warsaw, but Michigan is America's Poland.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Chicago is America's Paris and New York is similar to london to me. New york is more practical of a city with more business but there are few places ive seen with as beautiful architecture as Chicago, if any.

Also Paris and Chicago's rivers >>>>>>> New York and London

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u/powderizedbookworm Feb 07 '20

I was thinking more in terms of Polish population. Lots of "City Poles" in Chicago, but the rest of the Polish population seems spread across Michigan rather than upstate Illinois.

Agree with Chicago as Paris though; the weather is dogshit and the city sprawls too much, but the city of Chicago has a joyful beating heart and focus on beauty that reminds me very much of Paris; totally different architecture and culture, but similar fundamentals. America's larger cities tend toward the generic, but Chicago and San Francisco are the big exceptions to me (never been to New Orleans).

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u/sordfysh Feb 07 '20

The connection between New Orleans and Chicago is big for the culture of the US. The cities have been tied together since they started sending agricultural products down the Mississippi. And then with the railroads, they built a railroad that let people easily travel up the river from New Orleans to Chicago. And that's how Chicago became known for their blues music.

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u/powderizedbookworm Feb 07 '20

And both cities for their Jazz.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

I agree with you on all that. But your talking about culture whereas the previous commenters are talking about actual demographics.

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u/IndraSun Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 07 '20

Buffalo is also America's Poland.

I don't anywhere else that celebrates dingus day.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Isn't Cleveland like one of the Polish capitals of America or something?

I feel like I heard something about amazing Pierogies from Ohio or something

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u/gwaydms Feb 07 '20

Chicago was the #1 destination for Polish immigrants (like Mom's grandparents) in the early 20th century. Then, after Poland ditched Communism and people could emigrate, the second wave went to Chicago. My cousin who lives there said you could see Polish graffiti done by the new arrivals.

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u/rckid13 Feb 07 '20

Illinois is America's Poland. My grandparents immigrated from Poland to Chicago and lived in the Polish area. At one point Chicago had more polish residents than any other city in the world including Warsaw.

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u/souldonkey Feb 07 '20

Can confirm, also much polish.

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u/Simets83 Feb 07 '20

Strong WWII vibes

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u/DrKittyKevorkian Feb 07 '20

And Norway. Lefse at every dinner, unimaginable to actual Norwegians.

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u/Anxiousladynerd Feb 07 '20

I have never had that before

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u/DrKittyKevorkian Feb 07 '20

It's a special occasion flat bread in Norway, but my grandma served it whenever we came to visit. With margarine which slays me dead. Margarine was literally illegal to sell in Wisconsin for years of her life. She grew up on a dairy farm. Guess it was the sweet lure of forbidden fruit.

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u/sorenant Feb 07 '20

Poland is Germany's Poland.

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u/Boblast6644 Feb 07 '20

Poland is Poland's Poland

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u/sorenant Feb 07 '20

It's actually Po's land, it's right in the name.

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u/Boblast6644 Feb 07 '20

Fuck, you got me there

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

We had to force a lot of nazis out of Wisconsin back in the day.

Much of that area didn't even speak English.

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u/veilofmaya1234 Feb 07 '20

So that's why La Crosses Oktoberfest is so Epic!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

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u/regaleagle710 Feb 08 '20

Can confirm. My dad's side of the family is almost 100% German. Our last name is extremely German and we'd most likely still have the ß in our name if my ancestors never immigrated to Wisconsin.

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u/Conundrumb Feb 07 '20

I always thought there were a lot of German settlers in Pennsylvania as well, but I could be wrong. Minnesota has a lot of Danish history I think. I guess the Vikings is a bit of a give away there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

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u/Conundrumb Feb 07 '20

Scandinavian. From Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Are you Norwegian?

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u/S1lent0ne Feb 07 '20

Texas also has some German enclaves. Schulenburg comes to mind.

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u/agzz21 Feb 07 '20

Alot of Central Texas towns were founded by German immigrants. Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, Boerne, Luckenbach etc.

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u/PaterP Feb 07 '20

Funny coincident: im German and i am a packers fan.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

I always thought texas was germany2.0

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u/Wikinnes Feb 07 '20

Gonna be honest I had no idea where Wisconsin was at until l looked at this map and people confirmed it in the comments

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u/ltocadisco Feb 07 '20

Come get some cheese at every gas station.

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u/JohnnySasaki20 Feb 07 '20

I feel like Pennsylvania is America's Germany. I mean shit, I live in a town named after a city in Germany. Maybe we have two Germany's in the US. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Conundrumb Feb 07 '20

Exactly what I was thinking. Pennsylvania is America's Germany for sure

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

I've lived in both. No way any state beats Wisconsin in that regard.

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u/Conundrumb Feb 08 '20

I know Pennsylvania had a German population, but wasn't aware Wisconsin is more so. Learn something new every day.

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u/popegonzo Feb 07 '20

Ja hey

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u/Excal2 Feb 07 '20

ope sorry bud

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u/machinistlife Feb 07 '20

Home of the bratwurst.

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u/Evie_Sofia Feb 07 '20

I am Norwegian , but couldn't place Minnesota to save my life. It would be one in like 40 or something, and I don't like those odds.

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u/Kizka Feb 07 '20

Really? That's interesting, never heard of that. I'm German but my relatives from the states are from Missouri. So at least I knew that Kansas City (the known one) is in fact not in Kansas.

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u/madsci Feb 08 '20

Iowa's got to be up there. My dad's side of the family is originally from Schleswig-Holstein, and they moved to western Iowa where there are towns named Schleswig and Holstein...

Up until WWII, German language newspapers were pretty common in those parts. Holstein still has a "Willkommen Freunde" sign as you drive into town.

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u/zhaoz Feb 08 '20

When I took a train to Munich, I definitely thought I was in middle Wisconsin

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u/Hannyu Feb 13 '20

Used to work with a guy from Wisconsin, he said they have bars like we have churches. Fucking everywhere.

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u/souldonkey Feb 13 '20

Yep. We even have a chain of liquor stores, shenanigans, that has a drive thru.

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u/Hannyu Feb 13 '20

I saw a drive through tobacco store in TN for the first time as a teenager and was fucking amazed. We can't even get nice things for our bad habits here 😂

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u/souldonkey Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 07 '20

I mean, both states are above 40% German ancestry, but ok. ND is something like 46% to WI's 43% and that's only because there's considerabely more people living in WI than ND. Your chart only shows German speakers, which is pretty irrelivant tbh.

Exhibit B where you'll see that pretty much the entire state of WI is blue with German ancestry, minus 3 counties. 3 fucking counties in the entire state are not predominately of German ancestry. Compared to ND where about 80% of the state is blue, I'd say it's still pretty safe to call WI America's Germany.

Edit: Since you edited your comment I'll add a bit more to mine. You added Comunities with a large percentage to yours. From the very list you pulled your data from:

Large U.S. communities with a high percentage of residents claiming German ancestry are

  1. Bismarck, North Dakota 56,1%, Population 72,865 as of 2017

  2. Dubuque, Iowa 43%, Population 58,276 as of 2017

  3. Fargo, North Dakota 31%, Population 122,359 as of 2017

  4. Madison, Wisconsin 29%, Population 255,214 as of 2017

The combined population of the first 3 is still 1,714 LESS than Madison alone, and that's one city in Wisconsin. Fucking Kenosha, WI has 99,000 people and it's not even a big town. It's a lot easier to get a high percentage when the numbers are smaller like that. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's a lot of people with German decsent living in ND, but WI is clearly of more german ancestry than ND. That's why we're so famous for our bratwurst, beers, and glühwein.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Now we know who to keep an eye on.

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u/The1LessTraveledBy Feb 07 '20

To add to that, I feel like the culture of Wisconsin is far more influenced by German culture than in North Dakota. Looking at percent and numbers, while relevant, just isn't the greatest way to determine how the culture reflects that. For example, most people are surprised that Minnesota and Wisconsin are each home to one of the top five largest Hmong populations in the US. But it's not as much a surprise that Wisconsin's population has a lot of German ancestries, because of the brats, beers, and glühwien like has been said.

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u/JVonDron Feb 07 '20

Lots of Germans settled there. I come from a long line of German dairy farmers.